GUWAHATI: All the doctors of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) will resume their duties from May 15, said Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
"All doctors including the superintendent of the GMCH, Dr Ramen Talukdar will resume their duties after testing negative in successive COVID-19 tests," said Sarma.
The doctors were put under quarantine after Dr Lithikesh DS, a post-graduate doctor at GMCH tested COVID-19 positive. After that, a student at Regional Dental Hospital and a patient of the neurology department were tested positive.
However, the rest of the 2000 samples collected have been tested negative, although the results of 110 are awaited.
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Sarma informed, "As per ICMR guidelines if a person who was contact traced to a positive patient is not tested positive after 7 to 8 days and is asymptomatic, the transmission capability of the person decreases. As such, the doctors of GMCH can resume service although they have not completed 14 days of quarantine."
Further, the fully commissioned COVID-19 hospital of GMCH will be completed in about 10 days. It will be installed with UV rays dispersing mechanism, imported from Canada.